blockade

Etymology
From, probably after (now ) or.

Noun



 * 1) The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
 * 2)  Any form of formal isolation or  of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
 * 3)  The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
 * 4)  Inhibition of the  (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
 * 5)  Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
 * 1)  Inhibition of the  (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
 * 2)  Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
 * 1)  Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.

Related terms

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Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حِصَار, مُحَاصَرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: блака́да
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: blokáda
 * Danish: blokade
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: blokado
 * Estonian: blokaad
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბლოკადა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הֶסְגֵּר
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: herkví
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: шектеме, блокада,, қоршау
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: obsidiō, obsessiō
 * Latvian: blokāde
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: блока́да
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠰᠡᠯᠡᠯᠲᠡ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: blokade
 * Nynorsk: blokade
 * Pashto: محاصره
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: блока́да
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: blokáda
 * Slovene: blokada
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, муҳосара
 * Thai: การปิดล้อม
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: blokada
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گھِیرا, محاصرہ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Finnish: saartojoukot
 * Hebrew: הֶסְגֵּר יַמִּי
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:, blokkaus

Verb

 * 1)  To create a blockade against.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: блакірава́ць, блякава́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, zablokovat
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πολιορκέω
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: circumsedeo
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: blokovať, zablokovať
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ปิดล้อม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: